Three Months Long

 Three Months Long is a story set in Abuja, in predominantly two districts, Wuye and Jabi. Peter and Olivia are in love and want to have a future together. However, Olivia is older than Peter by a few years and already a graduate while Peter is still a freshman in the university . While Peter’s family is not perturbed about the difference in age and academics , Olivia’s family won't have any of it. Peter promises Olivia a forever love but will their love stand the stern test from their parents and the Nigerian society where it's expected for a man to be several years older than his partner? As the story unravels, love, fear, uncertainty, parental pressures determination, t

  Peter’s kid sister called on the phone the next morning.‘Olivia you have bewitched my brother. All he talks about is y

 Peter called me every morning until it became a routine.  He’d tell me his plan for his day in detail and explain how much he missed me. He became my personal alarm clock. He’d call 5:30 am every day before going for his morning jog. He was a sucker for fitness.  Peter always had a new sweet text for me every day and I also sent him some too to compliment his.

After the party, I stayed with my parents for two days before moving back to John’s while Hannah went back to school the very next day after the birthday party.Stella and I became the most unlikely of friends, we had so much to contend about but yet we seemed to have come to an agreement that we would flow with the tides and go wherever the river tides take us. We grew so close that we look forward to hearing from each other every day.On the morning of the 17th February 2018, she called me up, guess what Olive, she said.What! I replied. I got myself an apartment she said excitedly. Wow, I repliedBet you didn’t know dad gave me some money when I was about leaving the house, and I got myself a place, I am tired of seeing his face every day, I need my space dear. I am happy, I replied, Peter has been playing the both of us she continued, he really doesn’t want to choose. I... Stella, I cut in, can we refrain from talking about Peter, it pisses me off that I wasted my emotions on a bo